Snow is nice.
University
Going to graduate school is weird. You pay the school a ton of money to let you work really hard.
On the other hand, a decent power supply is about a thousand bucks, and sometimes I just need three of them. And a scope. Sig gen. HPC. Coffee machine. Floor buffer. Overhead lights. Trash service. Box of stepper motor driver boards. Ovaltine.
They don’t have Ovaltine. I bring my own.
Pets
I should get a goat.
Make Progress
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Good is better than nothing.
Sleep
I went to bed early, slept like the dead, and woke up for my day at midnight.
Comcast
I don’t know if I can truthfully say Comcast is my internet service provider.
‘I pay Comcast for internet service,’ is as far as I can go.
SAT Literature Questions
Which of the following is the moral of Oedipus the King?
A) Kill your father.
B) Don’t marry your mother.
C) Your kids are going to sleep together and die.
D) Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
5 New Novels
Sanderson is actually five raccoons standing on top of each other in a trench coat.
All five of them have typewriters.
Stakes
One good thing about sports is the way they teach you to handle high stakes. A championship game is a high-stake affair, at least for the people playing. One rarely gets to championships if one doesn’t care. There’s no reason to panic and no reason to stop caring. One shouldn’t diminish the effort involved, nor allow it to overwhelm. It isn’t easy, but it isn’t impossible. It’s just a high-stakes event.
The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies
If the dwarves only answered the call of the bearer of the King’s Jewel, why did Dain Ironfoot come to Erebor?
Even if he believed Thorin and Company that Smaug was dead, you’d think he’d want proof. Isn’t skepticism the hallmark of the dwarves? Also, mind, he would have had to have left the Iron Hills when Thorin didn’t have the Arkenstone.